OTTAWA AGREEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 9

OTTAWA AGREEMENTS

THE MEAT PROBLEM NOTHING DEFINITE ARRANGED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 20. (Received June 21, at noon.) With only ten days before the Ottawa meat arrangements expire, the British Cabinet is seemingly without a plan to regulate beef imports after June 30. There is obviously no intention of letting the scheme lapse at the risk of chaotic marketing. Presumably an arrangement will bo made temporarily to continue the existing schedules (all Mr Elliot and the Board of Trade are ready with new proposals. Mr Bruce and Mr Thomas conferred at length, not specifically in connection with Ottawa, but on the broader aspect of world marketing, specially meat, about which Mr Bruce outlined the situation as the result of his Australian and New Zealand discussions. The ‘ Sun-Herald ’ service understands that Mr Thomas favoured an early conference in England with dominion representatives, but Mr Bruce was not enthusiastic about a formal meeting. He prefers to meet the British Cabinet members separately, not particularly in his official capacity, but more as an observer who has studied the situation in each dominion. The great problem facing England and the dominions is the imminence of chilled exports. It f is unlikely that Australia, New. Zealand, or South Africa will greatly increase the total of their meat exports immediately, because chilled will largely substitute frozen, but Rhodesia and South Africa would send quantities of chilled hot already coming here.